I finally managed to find time to fix the nightly build of OpenSuSE's RPM for KOffice. Well mostly, taking the spec from official beta package, tweaking it a little bit, and wait one hour between two changes to see the next error... Well anyway, if you have OpenSuSE (with KDE4.1's package from the build service) and want to test KOffice2, for instance for the bug krushing that is still going on, help yourself: Nightly builds.

A few thoughts from the treasurer as Roktober draws to a close. I hope I haven’t posted this too late to have a positive impact on our overall fund drive. We are way off our goal for this year and I am not sure if that is the result of the uncertainty in the economy or people are just sick of us

We have seen a huge fall-off in donations from the US, and I wonder whether it is because we expressed the goal in Euros and somehow offended our friends outside of Europe. Last year, because of the strength of the Euro against the other world currencies, we made a decision to express our goal in Euros because many of our expenses are in Euros. This is not because we are a Euro centric project. In fact, we have just as many US based devs as Europe, and we also have people in Australia, China and South America. We need support from around the world, not just Europe, so if ...read more...

So, the judging process has finally reached its first milestone - six finalists have been chosen. Those of you who visited FSCONS on Friday know them - to the rest of the world - the announcement is up now (yes - I know - lateish).

So, here they are, in no particular order, the finalists of this years contest:

xVideoServiceThief

“A simple, yet complete and easy to use application for downloading Flash movies from YouTube and similar sites and for converting them to other, more usable formats. It uses ffmpeg to do the conversion.”

Here is OSNews' review of Xandros Desktop Home Edition Premium version 4.0 . Xandros Systems was so kind as to provide OSNews with the top of the line version of their product, which includes, among other ...

As you may have noticed, KOffice is approching a 2.0 release. There is still some work to do and here’s where you come in.

It was already announced on the dot: Sunday (which is tomorrow) will be the first official KOffice Bug Day. Or Krush Mastery as Lemma called it. We’ll start at 7:00 UTC and gather on #kde-bugs to hunt down known bugs and and find some new in the latest release.

Let’s make KOffice 2 the best and coolest office suite out there in the world and help the developers by providing the best and most useful bugreports we can come up with and cheer them on!

If you can spare some time, don’t hesitate to join us. You don’t need any coding skills, a working install of KOffice 2.0 beta2 will do. But watch out, summertime ends tonight!

I'm really looking forward to hanging out on #kde-bugs tomorrow. I'm not sure wether I'll skive off going to Church in the morning, but in the afternoon I'll be there for sure. The way the BugSquad prepares these things is nothing short of amazing in its thoroughness. Just look at the techbase pages that have been prepared:

For Krita, the goal will be on triaging bugs more than finding new bugs -- we've collected quite a few reports over the years, and frankly, I kind of lost my grip over the past year-and-a-half. And so much has changed in Krita, it's really important to go through all the bugs and check whether they'll still valid.

A few months ago I switched website hosts from Netfirms to Site5, because Site5 had a good deal for a plan with unlimited bandwidth and disk space. The first thing I did was upload my entire music collection.

To access all of my music remotely via any internet-connected web browser, I wrote ZX2C4 Music, which is password protected to avoid the law, but if you’d like to view the interface just for curiosity, send me an e-mail, and I’ll send you a password. It uses PHP/MySQL for managing the music, hashing each file with an sha1, TagLib for reading tags, and JavaScript/HTML as an interface: Search queries are done with AJAX, and playing is done with Flash, if available; otherwise it defaults to browser plug-ins. Soon I should add HTML5’s element support. Since Flash only supports MP3, the php backend optionally ...read more...

New blogs for your weekend reading enjoyment. I should be adding some of these to Planet V12n in the near future. New VMware ThinApp Blog from Travis Sales. Recent posts include: ThinApp for VI Admins - Communities Roundtable #15 podcast...

Simon, our worshippalicous python bindings hacker came by tonight for a bit of hacking (he lives across the river from here, about 20 minutes by bike on a well OSM-mapped route. I was keen to get the new Python scriptengine Sime has just landed in SVN running so I can play around with Plasmoids written in Python. The steps to get Python Plasmoids on running on your desktop are (assuming you have KDE from SVN installed): installing python, sip and pyqt into your development environment; building kdebindings, then you can build the plasma scriptengine located in kdebase. There are building instructions on TechBase. Developing Plasma applets (which is pretty much the only thing you can do with the scriptengine right now, since there aren't any applets written yet -- except for the obligatory clock) is pretty easy from that point. You need to have a .desktop file containing some metadata and you actual script (which can be how ever long you wanted, it lands in contents/code/main.py and other ...read more...

I've been meaning to post a quick update with my KDE e.V. hat on for a couple weeks now. I'm in between conference calls, so I figure this is my chance. ;)

Since Akadamy '08, we've had 11 people join KDE e.V. as members. They were all just announced formally on the mailing list, and it's terrific to see the e.V. continue to grow and see the flow of new developers mature into a known contributors who decide to take a step into the foundation that supports so much of KDE. This is how the e.V. stays relevant to the project as it provides a bond of trust that the directions the e.V. takes will reflect the current needs of the project.

KDE e.V. has been ticking out the progress points since Akademy in other ways as well. While Akademy is our Big Event each year, we do a lot more than that. We of course help coordinate (e.g. via our mammoth booth box) and fund (travel and lodging mostly) attendance at events around the world (though primarily ...read more...

The decision was made to file off some remaining sharp edges from libplasma and then move it into kdelibs on November 1. However, I was thrown a few curve balls this week in the form of some schedule changes due to things maturing quicker than I expected.

Instead of being around the house working on Plasma next week, I'm going to be in London on Monday for meetings and then off to Finland until the end of the work week. That means that the two weeks I thought I'd have to spend with the team finalizing the couple remaining bits of libplasma API is cut short. As of today I'm busy doing meeting agendas, presentations, organizing the house for my departure and what not.

We did manage to get ToolTipManager reviewed and polished, though, thanks in no small part to our resident API reviewer (aka "API slave driver" ;) Kevin Ottens and there's some final work being done with Corona with regards to screen geometry management (more on that and Kephal in a later blog report), but ...read more...

The Economist has a nice special report on Cloud Computing and corporate IT, and successfully explains the various flavors, from the SaaS/Gmail to the VDC-OS enterprise cloud. It's hard to pull out one quote, so here are two samples: The...

As you might have read on the dot, we'll be having our first ever (?) KOffice Bug Day this Sunday the 26th. KOffice 2 has just reached its beta2 release and I for my part can't wait to check it out - user- as well as bug-wise

As a special bonus BugSquad won't just triage bugs but also do some krushing.

Now as I heard that "Krushing is a confusing term" I thought I'd put together some information about it similar to what I wrote about The Art of Bug Triage. This time I did however put all of it on the accompanying techbase wiki page which I assembled in preparation of Sunday. So here I present you: